NEWSLETTER October 2016 Volume 11 Issue #10 CLUB NEWS October 4 Orchid Events. There are several Florida orchid shows SAOS Meeting this month as listed on the website. [email protected] Show Table Review. Courtney Hackney started the table discussion with Harry McElroy’s huge Lc. Ditto Head Welcome and Thanks. (Peggy Huffman x Lisa Ann) that as a mature plant is just President Bob Schimmel spectacular in full bloom with 3-4 flowers per stem. Because opened the meeting at 7:15 of its size, Harry has it in a non-traditional pot anchored pm with 50 attendees. Bob with a surrounding collar of concrete. The table had a good thanked Jeannette along example of older orchid clones and Courtney started with with Sophia Gay, Elaine one from the early 1900’s, Bc. Mrs. J. Leemann, a cross Hardy and Dottie Sullivan between Brassavola digbyana and Cattleya dowiana. It is for the refreshments while fragrant but the flowers don’t last long. Next he discussed reminding all to drop the classic Cattleya clone from 1945, called Bow Bells Roy Tokunaga a dollar in the jar. We ‘Elzada‘ AM/AOS (Edithiae x Suzanne Hye), a prime welcomed new member example of an old white corsage type orchid. Linda Roberts who joined using the new PayPal link on He then talked about two coeruleas, the Lc. Purple the website. Purity (Purity x purpurata) and the classic Lc. Blue Boy Our Membership Veep, Linda Stewart, recognized our ‘Gainesborough’ HCC/AOS, a cross between C. Ariel x Lc. two October birthday people with free raffle tickets. Bob Elegans and one of the first hybrids to really have a blue informed all that the Best of Show voting would occur color. If you are interested in these older cultivars, borrow between the Show Table discussion and program and Courtney’s book American Cattleyas from the library, we encouraged all to remember to vote for their favorite orchid. have two copies now! An example of an easy to grow orchid is the B. Little Stars, Club Business. The October 22nd Keiki Club will be a a primary nodosa hybrid with cordata, that Roy continues trip to the Orchtoberfest at EFG Orchids, 4265 Marsh Rd, to offer. They require high to medium light and provide DeLand, FL 32724. Email Mary at keiki@staugorchidsociety. your growing space with a wonderful aroma. Another org to make arrangements for ride shares. beauty was the Cattleya Tripp Johnston whose flower is full The Ace Repotting Clinic is done for the year, clinics will of chocolate spots, so many that the petals appear almost resume in February of 2017. black with a brilliant pink lip. This plant is a bifoliate that Email Sue Bottom ([email protected]) if you need some growers struggle to grow because it likes to be drier potting supplies, special quantities or different items and and resents repotting unless new roots are forming. she will bring them to the next meeting for purchase. Courtney then held up a Miltassia Shelob ‘Red Spider’ Yvonne Schimmel, filling in for SAOS Librarian Penny which is an intergeneric between Brassia and Miltonia Halyburton, brought in Courtney Hackney’s book on and quite easy to grow. The flowers are spidery shaped American Cattleyas for sharing. Check out the club’s library hence the name. Check out the photos of our show table collection on the website and email Penny (librarian@ examples at the end of the newsletter and on the SAOS staugorchidsociety.org) your request and she will bring the website. item(s) to the next meeting. Our AOS Representative, Suzanne SAOS Program. Courtney Hackney introduced Roy Susko shared the latest AOS Orchids Tokunaga from H & R Nurseries in Hawaii who proceeded magazine and pointed out the Orchid to describe the rather large genus, Dendrobiums. The Slipper Symposium information on the word itself means Tree Life and this large genus is divided back cover. This event will be held in into several sections. Roy showed a slide explaining the Apopka, FL in conjunction with the Krull- one similarity that links all of these sections together; all Smith nursery on Nov. 5. Continued on page 3 October 2016 Page 1 CLUB NEWS 20-22 Fort Lauderdale Orchid Society Show War Memorial Auditorium February 4 SAOS at Ace Hardware, 9 am til 1 pm 3050 US 1 S in St. Augustine Repotting and Plant Clinic Upcoming Orchid Events 4-5 Venice Area Orchid Society Show October Venice Community Center 8-9 Fort Pierce Orchid Society Show 7 SAOS Meeting, 7 pm Fort Pierce Shrine Club Unusual and Natural Mounts 11 JOS Meeting, TBA, 7 pm Tom Kuligowski, Angraecum Blog Roy Tokunaga, H & R Nurseries 11-12 Boca Raton Orchid Society Show 21-23 Orchtoberbest at EFG Orchids Safe Schools Institute 4265 Marsh Road, Deland 32724 14 JOS Meeting, Topic TBA, 7 pm 22-23 Gainesville Orchid Society Show Speaker TBA Kanapaha Botanical Garden 28-30 Delray Beach Orchid Society Show St. Augustine Orchid Society Organization Old School Square Gymnasium. November President Bob Schimmel [email protected] 1 SAOS Meeting, 7 pm Bulbophyllums Vice President Linda Stewart John Budree, Orchid Hobbyist and Grower Membership [email protected] 5 Annual Slipper Orchid Symposium Highland Manor, Apopka Vice President Sue Bottom 8 JOS Meeting, Topic Blue Cattleyas, 7 pm Programs [email protected] Courtney Hackney, Hackneau Art & Orchids Vice President Yvonne Schimmel December Publicity [email protected] 4 JOS Christmas Auction Secretary Janis Croft Jacksonville Golf & Country Club [email protected] 3985 Hunt Club Road, JAX 32224 6 SAOS Christmas Auction, 6 pm Treasurer Bill Gourley We’re meeting on our normal Tuesday night but at a [email protected] new location and starting earlier! Memorial Lutheran Church Directors at Large Dianne Batchelder 3375 US 1 South, St. Aug 32086 [email protected] Mary Colee January [email protected] Suzanne Susko 3 SAOS Meeting, 7 pm [email protected] How to Grow Orchids in St. Augustine Suzanne Susko, St. Aug Orchid Society Exhibit Committee Janis Croft 7-8 Sarasota Orchid Society Show Chair [email protected] Sarasota Municipal Auditorium 10 JOS Meeting, Topic TBA, 7 pm Librarian Penny Halyburton Speaker TBA [email protected] 13-15 Tamiami International Orchid Festival Dade County Fair Expo Center Newsletter Editors Sue and Terry Bottom 15 Keiki Club for Orchid Beginners, 1 pm Webmasters [email protected] Staking Your Orchids Operations Committee Jeanette Smith Charles and Kathy Young Chair [email protected] 160 West Genung St, St. Aug 32086 October 2016 Page 2 CLUB NEWS Continued from page 1 as 20 degrees but typically need three weeks of 50 or below in the winter. They are hard cane, evergreen and fragrant. have a spur lip attached to the base of the column and Den. speciosum and Den. kingianum are examples. all Dendrobiums have a Mentum to which the sepals are Section Rhizobium dendrobiums are also found in attached. Australia and like cacti are characterized by thick and Due to his location, Roy grows under shade cloth and his fleshy or leathery leaves that are often terete form. They plants get on average 40 inches of rain each year. So all tend to be mostly small plants like the Den. toressae. of his plants have to be able to grow in rainy conditions. Section Oxyglossum is one grouping that Roy suggests He also rarely gets cool evenings with maybe 4 or 5 nights we generally avoid because they are cooler growers, below 59 F. A member of the audience who has visited Roy except for the species bracteosum and its hybrids. Most several times commented that his nursery is the cleanest are beautiful miniatures, requiring intermediate to cool he has ever seen with all of his employees knowing to pick conditions and are bird pollinated. up any dead leaf or debris that they see daily. Section Latouria has 50 species and he has specialized in There are over 1000-1200 species divided into hybridizing within this group. They need lots of water and approximately 40 sections. Dendrobiums are from his slide example, Den. convolutum blooms year round. southeastern Asia ranging from Japan to northern New Roy shared a tip that he stops fertilizing with ammonia Zealand and from Tahiti to India. One unique thing is and urea (because they interrupt flowering) using nitrate that they don’t all easily hybridize with others in different based fertilizers instead during the flowering season. He sections, unlike many orchids such as the different varieties crossed Den. johnsoniae with Den. atroviolaceum to get of cattleyas. Roy creates his hybrids with close attention to Den. Roy Tokunaga, one of his best crosses for producing genetics often using tetraploids to help ensure the progeny white flowers. are more uniform and of good quality. In general, you Section Formosae is unique with all of its little black hairs will enjoy success with dendrobiums if you provide good on inflorescences, flowers and seed pods. He recommends aeration and drainage. growing them like vandas with heavy summer fertilizing Roy then showed slides of orchids representing some of and bright light. Den. dearei and Dendrobium infundibulum the sections more commonly offered for the hobbyist: are two examples. Phalaenthe section dendrobiums consist of 6 or 7 species Section Callista dendrobiums have hard canes and also that tend to bloom in the fall with spectacular waterfall effect require three weeks of cooler temps below 59. They don’t on the inflorescences, e.g. the hybrid Den. Little Diamond. require drying out however. They are typically spring Spatulata section dendrobiums consist of approximately blooming, showey plants like the Dendrobium lindleyi 50 species each with their waxy, curly petals which have (aggregatum).